Product Description

A must have for all developing skiers and instructors, this book is the most up to date insight to how we ski and how to include all areas of sports performance & strategy to help us and our students perform to their best.

We need to be able to adapt to the mountain and use our skills appropriately for the different terrain we wish to ski on. To name a few - bumps, ice, powder and not forgetting nice smooth pistes. This book will help you approach such terrain both technically and psychologically in the simplest language you will find anywhere.

Easy to read and understand, no need to have a dictionary beside you and lots of useful pictures to help you enjoy the read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115712 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

From the Author
This book brings together the knowledge and expertise of some of the leading practitioners in the snowsports industry.

Apart from being the principle author my role has been to manage this project from start to finish and collate and edit the contributions from the other writers.

The contributing writers include, Robbie Fenlon UIAGM Guide and director of Wilderplaces, Professor David Murrie a specialist in biomechanics and coach education, Shona Tate former member of the Scottish Alpine Ski Team and
co-director of BASS Chamonix and Liam Williams, IASI Level 3 (ISIA) and 2 times Olympian from the sport of rowing.

From the Back Cover
Parallel Dreams Alpine Skiing is aimed at both recreational skiers and instructors. It will prove an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to develop their's or other's skiing performance. It helps make sense of complex concepts breaking them down into simple and understandable language backed up by a host of great photographs.

"Derek Tate is one of the most knowledgeable people I have come across on the subject of skiing. His approach is at once technically perfect but easily communicated - a rare combination of attributes, but one that is gracefully packaged in this volume. The holistic approach to the art of skiing that Derek brings together in this book will also greatly benefit your life off-piste and the contributions from experts such as Professor David Murrie, (basic principles of skiing); LiamWilliams (training) and Robbie Fenlon (off-piste) add a degree of authority rarely found in any one single opus. Derek's wife Shona Tate, herself a BASI instructor, brings an additional perspective to the
excellent instruction in this handbook that will serve from intermediate recreational standard to instructor level. A thoroughly well thought out work that will be referred to by many improving skiers for years to come."
Damian Hackett
Managing Director, Outsider Media Group

About the Author
Principle Author Derek Tate

Derek is the current Director of Training for IASI. Originally from Dublin, Derek has been teaching skiing full time for over 20 years. He has been instrumental in developing the training and grading system for IASI. He also works as a trainer for the British Association of Snowsport Instructors BASI). He now lives in Chamonix where he runs his ski school together with his wife Shona.

Derek's career started on the artificial slope at Kilternan, Dublin where the Ski Club of Ireland are based. Having done his first BASI course in January 1986 in Flaine, France, he then taught his first three seasons in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland working for Carrbridge Ski School. Since then Derek has worked in many parts of the world from New Hampshire, USA to Chatel in the Portes du Soleil, and Courchevel in three valleys of France
to name but a few.

Derek is also a graduate of the Diploma in Professional Studies Sports Coaching, from Moray House/Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. And he represented Ireland as a technical delegate at the 1999 Interski Congress in Norway.

Writing this book has been a natural development of Derek's
career following the writing of educational resources for BASI, Snowsport Scotland and IASI.

Customer Reviews

Parallel Dreams Alpine Skiing
What a pleasure to read a book that is technically excellent and informative, yet is easy to understand from start to finish. From early intermediate skier to aspiring instructors at all levels, this book will be read again and again and cannot help but improve both your technical understanding and "on-snow" skiing.

Skiing
This book is not only an excellent tool for all ski instructors, but is written is such a way that it will help anyone who wants to improve their skiing. It is well written, easy to understand, has good clear diagrams and some inspiring photographs!

At last, a practical ski book!
Finally a ski book that makes sense. This is not just for the advanced skier but anyone who wants to make their skiing better! Very well written and in plain English without jargon. Covers a multitude you would normally not even think of. Simply, it makes sense!